David Gandara, professor of medicine at the UC Davis School of Medicine and director of clinical research at the UC Davis Cancer Center, has been elected secretary/treasurer and appointed to the board of directors of the American Society for Clinical Oncology, the world's leading professional organization representing physicians who treat people with cancer.

A prominent lung cancer specialist, Gandara chairs the Lung Committee of the Southwest Oncology Group, a National Cancer Institute-sponsored clinical trials cooperative research group comprising 283 institutions in the United States and Canada. Under his leadership, UC Davis for the past two years in a row ranked first among the 283 SWOG sites in the number of patients enrolled in clinical trials.